The designation for the Twitter social networking service after being renamed "X" in July 2023. For more about the X naming, see
X.com.
Since Twitter was launched in 2006, numerous related terms were created and cited millions of times in conversation, articles, blogs, books and TV. Time will tell how long it takes before, or even if, all the Twitter terms are changed or forgotten (see
Twitterese). More than two years after the ownership and name change, people still refer to Twitter and tweets. In fact, although a tweet is now a post, a question such as "If you're on X, did you see this tweet?" is not uncommon.
Basic Posting Is Free
Basic posting is still free, and there are three tiers of paid subscribers under the X Premium brand as follows, all of which provide access to the Grok chatbot. There are also professional tiers for commercial and government entities, and there are creator subscriptions that allow people to charge for exclusive content. See
Grok.
X Premium Basic
Provides posts up to 25,000 characters, which everyone can read even if not an X Premium subscriber. All X Premium levels include text formatting, bookmarking folders, custom app icons, higher reply ranking and more.
X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue)
X Premium adds a blue checkmark and limits ads, and users can share ad revenue in replies of posted content. X Premium also provides ID verification and greater reply prioritization along with media management via Media Studio.
X Premium+
The top X Premium tier eliminates most ads and provides greatest reply prioritization along with advanced Grok features. See
X.com.